Habits and Men: With Remnants of Record Touching the Makers of BothRedfield, 1855 - 402 pages |
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... centuries to a fixed fashion , as may be seen in any illustrated work on costume . In this respect they were only less tenacious than the Persians , whose garments passed from father to son as long as they could hold together . It would ...
... centuries to a fixed fashion , as may be seen in any illustrated work on costume . In this respect they were only less tenacious than the Persians , whose garments passed from father to son as long as they could hold together . It would ...
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... century . Some ladies took their footmen with them into their box at the play ; others married actors , and their noble fathers declared they would have more willingly pardoned their daughters had they married lacqueys rather than ...
... century . Some ladies took their footmen with them into their box at the play ; others married actors , and their noble fathers declared they would have more willingly pardoned their daughters had they married lacqueys rather than ...
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... century we were distinguished as the only people in Europe who sat down to dinner without " dressing " or washing our hands . all particular . " Indeed we were for a long time “ not at Fashions , cleanly or otherwise , often come by the ...
... century we were distinguished as the only people in Europe who sat down to dinner without " dressing " or washing our hands . all particular . " Indeed we were for a long time “ not at Fashions , cleanly or otherwise , often come by the ...
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... simplicity of the good old country rector in the last century , as regards the adorning of the outer man . Her father , the Rev. Dr. Butt , was Rector of Kidder- minster ; he is the hero of the story , 58 HABITS AND MEN .
... simplicity of the good old country rector in the last century , as regards the adorning of the outer man . Her father , the Rev. Dr. Butt , was Rector of Kidder- minster ; he is the hero of the story , 58 HABITS AND MEN .
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... century , the laws of fashion have been more stringent , those of taste ever execrable . Taste , in its true sense , and as applied to costume , has never of late been The admiration Of this short - coated population , - This sew'd - up ...
... century , the laws of fashion have been more stringent , those of taste ever execrable . Taste , in its true sense , and as applied to costume , has never of late been The admiration Of this short - coated population , - This sew'd - up ...
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Page 172 - If I were a woman, I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me, and breaths that I defied not...
Page 11 - Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile, she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled.
Page 10 - A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility : Do more bewitch me, than when art Is too precise in every part.
Page 23 - The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea...
Page 329 - Another's diving bow he did adore, Which with a shog casts all the hair before, Till he, with full decorum, brings it back, And rises with a water-spaniel shake. As for his songs, the ladies' dear delight, These sure he took from most of you who write.
Page 20 - Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue : and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them...
Page 9 - DELIGHT IN DISORDER A SWEET disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness: A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction: An erring lace, which here and there...
Page 99 - That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk, shot with silver threads ; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a Marchioness ; instead of a chain, she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels.
Page 19 - And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen. And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats
Page 194 - And one of the ladies would, and did sit with her mask on, all the play, and, being exceeding witty as ever I heard woman, did talk most pleasantly with him; but was, I believe, a virtuous woman, and of quality. He would fain know who she was, but she would not tell; yet did give him many pleasant hints of her knowledge of him, by that means setting his brains at work to find out who she was, and did give him leave to use all means to find out who she was, but pulling off her mask.